SugarCRM and BitNami have partnered to make it easy to run SugarCRM
Professional, Enterprise and Community Editions on Amazon Web Services using
BitNami Cloud Hosting, a platform that helps businesses deploy and manage
servers in the cloud.

_San Francisco, CA. April 4, 2011. – _SugarCRM, a leading provider of
customer relationship management (CRM) software, and BitNami announced today
that they have partnered to provide SugarCRM as part of BitNami Cloud Hosting.
BitNami Cloud Hosting provides businesses and consultants with one-click
application deployment, automated backups, server scheduling, one-click server
restores, monitoring and other features for applications running on Amazon Web
Services (AWS).

With the BitNami and SugarCRM partnership, BitNami becomes SugarCRM's
preferred method to deploy its software on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2). BitNami will showcase its solution at the AWSbooth (#301) at the
SugarCon conference in San Francisco, taking place April 4-6th at The Palace
Hotel.

BitNami Cloud Hosting enables consultants and solutions providers to have a
completely configured SugarCRM environment up and running in the cloud in just
minutes, making it easy for users of all technical skill levels to confidently
run SugarCRM on the AWS cloud.

"I chose BitNami Cloud Hosting because of its simplicity," said Josh Ovett, a
Managing Partner at Plus Consulting, a SugarCRM Gold Partner and reseller. "I
was able to get my developers up and running in minutes with minimal knowledge
of Linux or how to run on Amazon Web Services. I receive all of the basics -
backups, monitoring, restores and re-sizing - with just a few mouse clicks."

"Amazon Web Services enables developers and businesses to quickly deploy
applications of all types including business applications like SugarCRM, in a
highly secure, reliable, scalable and cost effective environment," said Terry
Wise, Director of Business Development at Amazon Web Services LLC. "We are
pleased to work with BitNami and SugarCRM to help businesses move their
mission-critical applications to the AWS cloud."

Both the Professional and Enterprise versions of SugarCRM are now available
for one-click deployment in BitNami Cloud Hosting, as is the open source
Community Edition. This enables users to choose the edition of SugarCRM that
best meets their needs.

"SugarCRM is dedicated to giving our users ultimate control in terms of how
and where they deploy and access their Sugar system," said Chuck Coulson, Vice
President of Business Development at SugarCRM. "BitNami makes it easy for
users to leverage an open, flexible cloud solution for their SugarCRM needs on
Amazon Web Services."

"Amazon Web Services offers a powerful, scalable, on-demand computing
environment. SugarCRM is a leading commercial open source CRM system. BitNami
Cloud Hosting simplifies and automates the process of deploying and managing
servers in the cloud." said Erica Brescia, CEO of BitRock, the company that
develops BitNami Cloud Hosting. "Together, these three offerings provide
companies of any size with a simple, flexible and cost-effective way to run an
enterprise-grade customer relationship management system."

BitNami simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively,
virtually and in the cloud. BitNami Cloud Hosting provides a growing library
of the most popular open source applications, ready to be launched with the
click of a button. With BitNami Cloud Hosting, solution providers and
businesses of all sizes can deploy and manage business applications such as
Jasperserver, SugarCRM, Alfresco, Drupal and many more.

About SugarCRM

SugarCRM makes CRM Simple. As the world's leading provider of open source
customer relationship management (CRM) software, SugarCRM applications have
been downloaded more than seven million times and currently serve over 700,000
end users in 80 languages. Over 7,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM's On-Site
and Cloud Computing services over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been
recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM
Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and
Intelligent Enterprise.